What are the important events that happened on November 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 29 is the 333rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 16, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,406,240 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontatrigon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 80 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,726 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 29 Historical Events
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
- 1777 –San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
- 1830 –November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins.
- 1864 –Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
- 1872 –Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- 1885 –End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
- 1929 –U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
- 1944 –Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
- 1944 –The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- 1947 –The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Israel.
Who were born on November 29?
- 1484 –Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
- 1813 –Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
- 1898 –C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
- 1901 –Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
- 1904 –Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
- 1915 –Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
- 1931 –Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
- 1938 –Gene Okerlund, American wrestling interviewer and announcer
- 1956 –Leo Laporte, American television personality
- 1961 –Masayoshi Yamashita, Japanese musician
Who died on November 29?
- 1643 –Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
- 1661 –Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
- 1927 –George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
- 1939 –Philipp Scheidemann, German statesman (b. 1865)
- 1942 –Boyd Wagner, American World War II fighter pilot (b. 1916)
- 1991 –Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1993 –J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman, Industrialist, and pilot (b.1904)
- 1999 –Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese naval officer (b. 1918)
- 2005 –Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
- 2010 –Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (b. 1940)
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